Adjustable nailless horseshoe.



No. 657,405. Patented Sept. 4, |900. H. R. yFENLEY. ADJUSTABLE NAILLESS HOBSESHUEL (Applicatiqn led Jan. 29. 1900A lNn Model.)

W/ TNE SSE S ATTORNEYS 'THE Nonms Prins co. Puoown, WASHINGTON. n c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRIET R. FENLEY, OF DALLAS, TEXAS.

ADJUSTABLE NAILLESS HQ RS ESHOE.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 657,405, dated September 4, 1900.

Application filed January 29, 1900. Serial No. 3,182. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, HARRIET R. FENLEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Dallas, in the county of Dallas and State of Texas, have invented a new and Improved Adjustable Horseshoe, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a horseshoe which may be readily placed upon or removed from the hoof of the animals foot, which will be durable, be adapted for con venient renewal of worn tread portions, and which may be produced at a moderate cost.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts,as is hereinaf ter described,and defined in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate` corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a partly-sectional side view of the improvement. Fig. 2 is a partly-sectional front view of the same. Fig. 3 is an inverted plan view of the shoe with one-half of the Wear-plate removed. Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the shoe with parts removed, substantially on the line 4 4 in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the toe portion of the wear-plate. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a side portion of the Wear-plate. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of the improved shoe having the Wearplate thereof removed. The improvement is of a class in which the hoof of the animal is partly enveloped by the shoe, and the latter is held upon the hoof by clasping it thereon, thereby avoidingthe use of nails or in any manner penetrating the hoof with securing devices.

In the drawings Which illustrate an einbodiment of my invention, 8 indicates the tread-plate of the shoe or the portion having direct contact with the lower surface of the animals hoof. The tread-plate S consists of two iiat portions of a suitable thickness, each constituting one-halt` of said plate, and when joined together-they form a horseshoe of the usual form. The forward or toe portion of the tread-plate 8 is adapted for flexure Where the front ends of eachV half-section nieet by hinging said sections together.

The hinge -joint provided is preferably formed as shown in Figs. l, 3, and 4 and consists in producing two parallel spaced slots d in one half-section at the front end thereof and a central slot a' in the mating end of the other half-section. Tongues b are' produced on the respective ends of the treadplate sections and fit in the slots a a', the tongues being jointed together by the insei-tion of a pintle-bolt c, which passes loosely into alined perforations in all the tongues b, with the exception of the outermost one, the perforation in which latter is screw-threaded, and the pintle-bolt is threaded near its head to screw into said threaded hole, whereby the sections of the tread-plate are loosely con-V nected `together at their curved front ends, as shown in Fig. l. Preferably the tongues b are thickened Where the perforations are formed in them for the reception of the pin tle-bolt c, so as `to strengthen them at this point,and from said perforations to the points of the tongues each tongue is tapered by sloping the lower side thereof, the bottoms of the slots ot a', near their heels, being beveledto correspond with the slope of the tongues, so that the jointed tongues are held from flexure above a level plane at their upperv faces, and this also renders the upper surface of the tread-plate level when the tongues b are fully bedded in the slots a a.

A sectional wear-plate is provided for attachmentupon the lower surface of the tread- .plate 8 and com prises two side plates 9 9 and a toe-plate 10. The side plates are preferably each furnished with a heel-calli d and may be secured in place upon the tread-plate 8 by screws c or rivets e', the latter being shown in Fig. 7 as projecting from the treadplate. The side plates 9 extend from the heel of the tread-plate to a suitable point at the front quarter of the same, and the front ends of said side plates are alined, so that the straightrear edge of the toe-plate 10 will fit closely against said ends, as shown as to one of the side plates in Fig. 3. The toe-plate l0 is a mainly [iat planchet formed of steel, as are the side 'plates 9 9, to insure durability,

H and from the straight rear edge of the toe- `plate its periphery is rendered convex, having a like curvature to that of the tread-plate at its front edge. The Iiat top surface of the toe-plate 10 has a groove g formed therein IOC) extending .from the'fcenter .of Ythe l.plate at the front edge to aniabutment-lange It, which projects upwardly near the rear edge of the toe-plate;

equaling in hoightthe thickness of thetreadthe toe-plate and wherein the thickened poragainst the front ends of the side plates 9 9,`

and this engagement of parts. willl prevent* forward or rearwardfmovernentof the ltoe# plate when the latter lis clamped trpefnft'lref4 tread-plate by the screws cor the rivets-e.

t d is formed on its under side,an=d tlrethree calksd, two fof Vwhich are onthe side platesl mail on stonev pavement or on ice lin winter.

.A two-part clamping-hood ll is shaped to conform to theext-erior of the'hoef where'on the shoe is to rbe placed and is after-ded a stricient height to adaptit for'eifectiveservf ice, said hood being-formed of thin plate metal.` The hood 1l is bisected at the front on `alcentral uprightl line, as shown in 2 and each half-section thereof' laps uipon the outer edge of a. respective half-section-of the tread-plate 8,whereon the Vhoed-sections are secured by rivets or other available mean-s; Nearthe upper edge of tlreclamping--hood Il and at the front meeting edges of its two vhalf-sections the two halves of a locking-V -clasp 12 in hinge form are thereon secured, one-half ou eachsection. The rn-eetingIe-nds lated and pass one into a slot in the othen's'o as to aline thetubu'lations thereof for the in.- treduction of a split key t', which mayl have the lower ends-of its two members spread apart Where they project from the tubulaonze to the other.

The pintle-bolt c has its `head c screwed v The abutment-ange is convex at., Vthe front and straight at the rear, said flange upon the joined .half-sectionsof the hood 11, thehody dfzsaid .bolt passingtlrrou-ghmating notches formed i-n the meeting edges of said half-sections, as shown in Figs. l and 2,w11i.ch connection will reinforce the junction of the i..hood-seetions near their flower edges. l plate except wherefthe groove g is I'formed 'inff VLIt wilibe seen that 'if'fthefhood 11 is fitted upon theexterior of an animals hoof, so that fthetreadTg1-alte'S'wll be drawnagainst the bottom thereof when the hood is in place, Vtl'leapplieation or removal of a shoe of the i'mjpwved construction sniay be quickly ef` ,fected and 'that the applied shoes will be re- I'ia'ble and durable and will avoid injury to the feet of an animal shod therewith.

` When the `shoesl l.are so, worn that vtheir Wear-plates lneed renewal, jthis may be done at -smlall expense and the shoes be adapted j for further service. VAtt the apex of the toe-plate l@ a ltoescalk Having thus' fully described 'my invention,

; Iclai-inas new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-A 9,lserve to prevent `any slippingof the anif l. In ank adjustable horseshoe, thecombination with atreadlplat'e and a hood thereon,

botl'r lbisected at their front and the treadsecton's'hfi-nged together, of a wear-plate comprising two side plates and aptoe-plate, all

secu red upon4 the 'tread-plate.

2. In-ain adjustable horseshoe,the combination with a tread-plate comprising two half- 'inrg .edges'bya locking-clasp, and at `the Alower edge 'by thehead ofthe pintle-bolt for the hinge on thei tread-plate, of -a wear-plate formed in th-reeportions,comprising two side platesfo'f like formeaeh having a heel-calk thereon, and' each side plate detachably seot the locking-clasp 12 are Lpreferably'tlubncured upon the tread-plate, and a toe-plate 1 havinganabintrnent-ange engaging'with the g inner' edge of theitread-plate opposite the hingef-join-t thereon, a toe-calk on the toeg plate, and' means todetachably hold' the toeplatel upon the tread-plate,

tion-s, `and thus secure the two'half-sections 2j of the hood locked securely but detachablyV 7 I-IARRIET R. FENLEY. 

